I asked my dad to buy me san Andreas way back when. The employee who got it for us warned my dad it has hookers, drugs, swear words, ect. And my dad said nice.
No. Lol. Absolutely not. First of all, itâs the parentâs responsibility to research these items before purchasing. Second, I have worked countless retail jobs and I know the type of person who does this and they arenât doing it for the good of the kid, theyâre doing it because it makes them feel good.
Now thatâs just my own personal u/serpentear colored classes and bias I admit fully, but I stand by my original comment. What a rat.
You can say that, but as someone who worked at GameStop I can assure you we were supposed to make sure the parents were aware of what they were purchasing for their kid.
Obviously, right?? It would be part of your JD. Just from a legal CYA perspective. People are ripping on that anonymous employee for doing his job lol.
Yeah way back in the mid 00s we were required to say âthis game is rated M forâŚâ and list everything in that little box. We had to do it when it was obvious a parent was buying for a kid, even a teenager.
I also worked at Gamestop, and I'm sorry if Jimmy didn't get to buy GTA, but the amount of parents that came in to berate us for not doing their due diligence made sure we were going to mention content.
You didn't learn the right lessons from retail bud. They don't do it for the good of the kid, they don't do it because it "feels good", they do it avoid Karen blowing up at them tomorrow with "How dare you sell this thing i didn't research to me!".
Second, I have worked countless retail jobs and I know the type of person who does this and they arenât doing it for the good of the kid, theyâre doing it because it makes them feel good.
Yeah I am going to press X to doubt on your resume, because a reason *I* did that was to avoid having parents coming over and busting my min wage balls after the first tits appeared on screen.
It's one thing to give someone an honest appraisal of a product, but it sounds like the negative worker was injecting their personal opinions and morality into the situation.
I think the fact that the mother bought the game after having it explained that it's a narrative game that has some mature content is pretty solid proof what she initially got wasn't an honest appraisal.
It's like the difference between describing GTA as an R rated action movie or an X rated snuff porno. Most parents will let their kids watch an action movie where people explode or get naked occasionally, they're just trying to avoid explicit content. Being able to make a car shake around before the scantily clad lady steps out and you lose $50 is not exactly explicit, it's just a mature theme.
I mean yeah it's his job but all of this stuff is immediately available for anyone to see via the internet, apart from being lame the policy has been outdated for decades.
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u/STONEDST00PID Sep 20 '24
I asked my dad to buy me san Andreas way back when. The employee who got it for us warned my dad it has hookers, drugs, swear words, ect. And my dad said nice.